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BlackBerry came out to celebrate the industry-only Rolling Stone Awards night in Sydney. Jim Finn from Art vs. Science chatted to a host of Aussie and international music legends, including Lupe Fiasco, Kimbra, Dan Sultan and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, about their music loves.

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With 'Go BBM' BlackBerry Plan from Vodafone, prepaid subscribers can avail of BBM services at Rs. 5 per day, and postpaid subscribers for Rs 129 per month.

Additionally, as a part of the introductory offer, subscribers who purchase a BlackBerry Curve 8520 or BlackBerry Curve 9300 smartphone till February 2012 will be able to avail of a one-year unlimited access to BBM from date of purchase.

Send ACT BBM129 to 111 or visit your nearest Vodafone centre to activate this plan today.

Today RIM announced the availability BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. This new service allows organizations to expand their Microsoft mail services to the cloud and manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud.

One of the nice things about this service is that customers that are already subscribed to the Office 365 suite or standalone Exchange Online and works with BlackBerry smartphones on business or consumer data plans. The service is actually very robust and offers a comparable features that a typical BES server would have.

Having it cloud based makes it an affordable alternative for many organizations. In addition RIM's partnership with software giant Microsoft helps alleviate some of the nasty licensing that many organizations have to go through. Here is a brief statement taken from RIM's official press release:

RIM has released Beta 3 of their Native SDK 2.0 for Tablet OS. A few new features have been added as well as updates to the documentation. Take a look at some of the new features and enhancements:

Tooling enhancements:

• A new easy-to-use Add Library Wizard, which is designed to simplify the process of adding library dependencies to a project
• Improved navigation and workflow in the Deployment Setup Wizard
• Enhancements to the BAR file editor to view localized manifests for each locale

API improvements:

• BPS services can now use channels as chosen by the application for multi-threaded messaging
• Scoreloop social gaming APIs

Documentation updates:

• A new “Hello Native SDK” tutorial provides a walkthrough of the OpenGL ES 1.1 Application Project template that comes with the QNX® Momentics® IDE
• A new “Displaying a dialog” recipe instructs users how to display dialogs on the screen and handle dialog events

If your a developer there are some nice additions to this update. Happy developing.

Our friend Ronen from BerryReview has just received information from sources that RIM has set a launch date for February 17th to release PlayBook OS 2.0 to the masses. There have been numerous rumors flying around as to what the actual ETA will be, but if this rings true, we will be updating out PlayBook's shortly after Valentine's Day!

UPDATE: dingleberry 3.0.2 has been released to address some issues with hulu

The popular PlayBook rooting application Dinglberry has been updated to version 3.0. This is update is packed full of goodies from the team lead by Dingleberry creator Chris Wade AKA @cmwdotme. Dingleberry has come a long way since its arrival last year, and has opened the doors up for many creative minds. Thanks to Dinglberry we can now do things like have access to the Full Android Market, and USB storage devices to our PlayBooks. Dingleberry 3.0 now allows for downgrading as well as the much anticipated ability to view hulu.

BlackBerry's most popular Bible app has been updated to version 3.7. Version 3.7 now allows users more granular control over their bookmarks. Anyone that uses this app will know that bookmarks are big deal when reading. The update also brings some communication and font fixes. Here is what's new in this release:

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Annu Dawar, Sr. Product Manager for BlackBerry 7, provides background on Near Field Communication (NFC) and BlackBerry technology, as well as walks through the features of BlackBerry Tag and all of the apps that are able to integrate with this new functionality provided in OS 7.1 for BlackBerry smartphones.

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